Justify: alternatives and connections

To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt…

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To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a stan…

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Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; a…

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Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…

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To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintai…

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To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.

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To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to ex…

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To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

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Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession…

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That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which on…

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Capable of being justified, or shown to be just.

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Capable of being justified, or shown to be just.

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The act of justifying or the state of being justified; a showing or proving to be just or conformable to law, justice, right, or duty; defense; vindi…

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The act of justifying or the state of being justified; a showing or proving to be just or conformable to law, justice, right, or duty; defense; vindi…

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Having power to justify; justificatory.

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Having power to justify; justificatory.

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Vindicatory; defensory; justificative.

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Vindicatory; defensory; justificative.

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One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains.

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One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains.

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To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.

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